Microsoft is hoping developers will be updating their UWP apps en masse to support their new Fluent Design language, and to help them along Microsoft has published an app in the store that demonstrates all the controls available. “XAML Controls Gallery” demonstrates all of the controls available in Fluent Design System and XAML. It’s the interactive companion to the Fluent Design System web site which can be seen here. According to Microsoft, the new Microsoft Fluent Design System will deliver “intuitive, harmonious, responsive and inclusive cross-device experiences and interactions” for…
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Convert Hex Color Code to Brush/SolidColorBrush in XAML App
To set the background color of an object in .NET XAML, you will need to set the Brush object type. To create a Brush object from a hexadecimal color code, use the following. //input ex: #dcdcdc public static Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.SolidColorBrush GetColorFromHex(string hexaColor) { return new Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.SolidColorBrush( Windows.UI.Color.FromArgb( 255, Convert.ToByte(hexaColor.Substring(1, 2), 16), Convert.ToByte(hexaColor.Substring(3, 2), 16), Convert.ToByte(hexaColor.Substring(5, 2), 16) ) ); } Happy coding!
How to use FlexLayout with different sizes
In this new post, I want to show you via a simple project how to use in MAUI FlexLayout with children with different sizes.
Build your sentence in MAUI
How to create a simple component to build your sentence in MAUI using taps and gestures. Source code available.
Picker doesn’t work for MacCatalyst
The MAUI Picker doesn’t work for MacCatalyst. And this is quite annoying. Here an idea how implement a workaround to this issue.
Language Dropdown for MAUI
I released a new component called Language Dropdown for MAUI. This displays a dropdown with all the languages in the world with their flags
Display HTML with MAUI Label
I show how display HTML with NET8 MAUI Label using only the Label attributes. The source code of this post is available on GitHub
Maui CommunityToolkit Popup crashes applications
I use the MAUI CommunityToolkit version 9.0.1 and in particular Popup crashes my applications. I discovered why and how to avoid it
Deep linking for NET8 MAUI
In this post everything you have to do to implement deep linking for NET8 MAUI for mobile and desktop applications
MAUI Push Notifications using Azure Notification Hub
Here how implement in NET8 MAUI the push notifications using Azure Notification Hub without any external package for Windows. Very hard work!
Create TabBar in MAUI
I show you how to create a nice #TabBar in #MAUI without using any external NuGet package or components. Fully customizable and 100% #XAML.
Some lessons I learned about MAUI
I want to share with you some lessons I learned about MAUI. In the last few months, I have been creating an application using NET8 MAUI.
Orange selected ListView item highlighted in MAUI
In a MAUI project, when a selected ListView item is highlighted or selected, the background of this item is orange. Here the solution.
Open a loading popup from MAUI viewmodel
Here I show how to open a loading popup from ViewModel in MAUI. It is quite an easy implementation, but it is working quite well.
Custom control for MAUI using SkiaSharp
I will demonstrate how you can create your own custom control for MAUI using SkiaSharp and what you need to do in order to make it reusable
NET8 is announced
Microsoft has recently announced the release of NET8, the latest version of its popular software development platform
Add SQLite to the MAUI application
I show you how to add SQLite to the MAUI application in order to have a small database in your mobile applications
Start with MAUI
It is time to start with MAUI. With the Release Candidate from yesterday we can update Visual Studio 2022 Preview to play with Multi-platform
Using biometric identification in Xamarin Forms
I’m going to explain how using biometric identification in Xamarin Forms to simplify authentication before executing certain important actions
Install MAUI with Visual Studio 2022
Microsoft is talking a lot about this new technology and here I will explain how to install MAUI with Visual Studio 2022 and run a first app
Web Live Preview for Visual Studio 2019
Working on the user interface is frustrating but from today you have a new Microsoft tool called Web Live Preview for Visual Studio 2019 that helps you
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI
Introducing .NET Multi-platform #App #UI
Uno Platform now lets you develop for macOS, Windows, and more using the same code
Uno Platform announced today that it now supports macOS as a target platform. This new support means that developers can use a single code base to create apps on Windows, iOS, Android, the web, and macOS. According to Uno Platform, this makes it the first and only cross-platform solution to allow the same codebase to run on all these platforms. Uno Platform allows developers to use C# and XAML code to create native apps on several platforms. Rather than running through Electron or emulation, apps that utilize Uno Platform can…
Digital transformation scenario with Azure, Visual Studio and Git
In a company prospective, what digital transformation is about? In this post I explain my point of view
Adapting to Enterprise and B2E Xamarin Forms App Development
Enterprise or Business to Employee (B2E) mobile apps can be quite different from their B2C counterparts. B2C apps, tend to focus on a small number of screens or feed for their main usage, and additional screens are not as frequently used, but there to serve ancillary functionality as needed. B2E apps, are focused on function, normally recording or accessing data for their day to day job. Many of them are replacing hand written recordings, for digital records, that are automatically synchronized to the main database. The fact that these users…